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1814 in Wales
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1814
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of AngleseyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of BeaufortEdwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions Edwin Poole 1886 378
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount BulkeleyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of WestminsterOld Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders not known William Retlaw Williams "Old Wales" Office 1907 3 106
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (until 16 November) Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of PowisR. G. Thorne http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820 1986 13 November 2021 13 November 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211113165618/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839 dead
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milfords-PHIL-PIC-1491 Philipps family, of Picton Bertie George Charles 1959 19 October 2021
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron RodneyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115William Stockdale Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom 1833 86
Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305
Bishop of Llandaff – Richard WatsonJohn Henry James A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff Western Mail 1898 16
Bishop of St Asaph – William CleaverThe Church of the people and free church penny magazine 1859 179The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15
Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3 George III (King of Great Britain) University Press 1967 434Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 The Royal Society 30 October 2020
Events
1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea.John Graham Jones The History of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=goevBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128 15 November 2014 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-169-0 128
3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.Report https://books.google.com/books?id=XyZDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA461 1837 461
February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.Alan Birch Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry https://books.google.com/books?id=XVP-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA81 5 November 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-61723-2 81
May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
10 September - The last recorded fatal duel in Wales is fought at Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn.About Adpar Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar 2012-02-11 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20091008070817/http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar 2009-10-08 Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
date unknown
Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register.
The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.Charles George Harper Gloucester to Milford Haven https://archive.org/details/oxfordgloucester02harpuoft 1905 Chapman & Hall
Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.
Arts and literature
New books
John Jones - Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi (2nd edition)Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester https://books.google.com/books?id=nZVaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA48 1870 48
Music
Thomas William - Perl Mewn AdfydWilliam, Thomas (1761-1844) s-WILL-THO-1761 2012-02-11 1959
Births
January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist (d. 1882)
29 January - Edward William Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
16 June - Robert Davies (Cyndeyrn), composer (d. 1867)s-DAVS-ROB-1814 DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814-1867), musician Robert David Griffith 23 January 2020
date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
Deaths
12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?s-THOM-EVA-1733 Thomas, Evan (Ieuan Fardd Ddu; 1733-1814), printer and translator Thomas Isfryn Jones 23 January 2020
23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57s1-JONE-RIC-1757 Jones, Richard (1757?-1814), cleric and writer Robert Thomas Jenkins 23 January 2020
3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66John Wesley Etheridge The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, D.C.L. https://books.google.com/books?id=vApOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA449 1860 J. Mason 449
21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71James Stanier Clarke John McArthur The Naval Chronicle: Volume 32, July-December 1814 https://books.google.com/books?id=m437Tx8awa4C&pg=PA176 2 September 2010 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-01871-5 176
26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58s-CHAR-THO-1755 Charles, Thomas (1755-1814), Methodist cleric John Roberts 1959 19 November 2021
16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70Roland Thorne Stuart, John, first marquess of Bute (1744–1814) 64138
See also
1814 in Ireland
References
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